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Robert Hamer
	Date of Birth: Mar 31, 1911 Country: UK Biography: The son of the Welsh character actor Gerald Hamer was educated at Cambridge University where he wrote some poetry and was published in a collection 'Contemporaries and Their Maker', along with the spy Donald Maclean. Hamer's cinematic career began as a clapper boy at London Films and worked for the GPO Film. He joined Ealing in as an editor, later becoming an associate producer. Nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Kind Hearts and Coronets. He died on December 4, 1963. Total Films at Criticker: 12 - You've Seen 0
Biography last updated by dharmabum, and picture by Moribunny Find more information about Robert Hamer at The Internet Movie Database

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School for Scoundrels (1960)

Summary: Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books, Henry Palfrey tries hard to impress but always loses out to the rotter Delauney. Then he discovers the Lifeman college run by "Professor" Potter and discovers the secrets of success. But has he the courage to put all his lessons into effect ? (imdb)

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The Scapegoat (1959)

Summary: A French count schemes to kill his wife and implicate a mild-mannered English schoolteacher whom he resembles (imdb)

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To Paris with Love (1955)

Summary: A baronet decides that his son needs to experience life outside of his blue-blooded world and so takes him to Paris to sample its earthy pleasures. Meanwhile, the son has his own plans; he wants to find his father a good woman because he believes his father has spent too much time cooped up on his lonely estate in Scotland. Many merry mix-ups ensue as the two well-meaning fellows try to find the right woman for the other. (nytimes.com)

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The Detective (1954)

Summary: Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. (imdb)

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The Long Memory (1953)

Summary: A man seeks revenge but will he destroy himself in the process? After a long jail term for a crime he did not commit, a man is torn between revenge (which will probably destroy him) or making a new life for himself. (imdb)

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The Spider and the Fly (1949)

Summary: A clever and dedicated French police official, a cleverer master-thief whom he secretly admires, the woman loved by the official who is in love with the thief, at the outbreak of World War I. (imdb)

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Summary: Louis Mazzini's mother's frequent tales of how her titled D'Ascoyn family shunned her after she eloped... (imdb)

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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

Summary: The events of a wet Sabbath unfold in the pubs, homes, and markets of the East End. While petty criminals and the police play cat-and-mouse, and various love affairs start and stop, housewife Rose Sandigate finds she has a difficult decision to make. Her previous fiance has appeared after escaping from Dartmoor and is asking for her help in hiding him. (imdb)

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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

Summary: A drunken, abusive tavern-keeper's adulterous wife uses the backward son of a rigid, puritanical pharmacist who makes his entire family miserable. (imdb)

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Dead of Night (1945)

Summary: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare (imdb)

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San Demetrio London (1943)

Summary: The San Demetrio of the title is a British merchant ship in an Atlantic convoy in 1940. Disabled and left to the mercy of patrolling U-boats the crew must keep her afloat and out of harms way. (imdb)

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55 Days at Peking (1963)

Summary: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals. (imdb)

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School for Scoundrels (1960)

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The Scapegoat (1959)

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To Paris with Love (1955)

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The Detective (1954)

Summary: Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul. (imdb)

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The Long Memory (1953)

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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)

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Dead of Night (1945)

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Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945)

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San Demetrio London (1943)

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55 Days at Peking (1963)

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San Demetrio London (1943)

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